Politics

To Donald Trump, the truth is whatever he decides it is. In the wake of Sidney Powell‘s plea deal and despite claiming that she had joined his legal team in 2020, the former president is now alleging she was “never” his attorney. “Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary… …

Nearly two weeks ago, media reported that Donald Trump reportedly revealed information about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. And on Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in …

As the bloody war in Gaza rages on, so does a digital struggle for control of the geopolitical narrative surrounding it. Now, a number of prominent pro-Palestine creators and influencers are baffled by a clumsy campaign to get them to support Israel on social media. On Wednesday, Issa Tweimeh, a …

The West Bank city of Ramallah, a city of 60,000, feels like a ghost-town. The typical hustle and bustle here has descended into an eerie silence, broken only by the occasional garbage truck or the wailing ambulance sirens. Thuds from Israel’s Iron Dome rocket system puncture the silence at intervals …

YE24, we hardly knew ye. The prospect of a Kanye West presidential run this election cycle appears dead. Ye’s personal attorney Bruce Marks, who is advising the wind-down of the rapper’s campaign apparatus, tells Rolling Stone: “He’s not a candidate for office in 2024.” Evidence of the decision not to …

Kenneth Chesebro, a Georgia co-defendant of Donald Trump, accepted a plea deal on Friday with Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors, in connection to the charges brought against him in the state’s sprawling RICO election interference case. Chesebo pleaded guilty to a single felony count of “conspiracy to commit filing false documents,” …

Jim Jordan shed even more support from his caucus in a third failed vote to secure the Speakership, and on Friday the Republican caucus deemed that he is no longer their Speaker Designate. Twenty-five Republicans voted against Jordan’s nomination during a Friday floor vote, an increase in defections from the …

Hamas released two American hostages on Friday. Militants for the group that controls Gaza abducted mother and daughter Judith Raanan (who also goes by Yehudit Tai), 59, and Natalie Raanan (Natali Shoshana Raanan), 17, from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, during their invasion on Oct. 7. The Israeli military picked them up …

Two weeks into the horrific war between Israel and Hamas, the state of online discourse has descended from “generally bad and stupid” to “unfathomably dumb and borderline dangerous.” Case in point: recent allegations that environmental activist Greta Thunberg, after posting a “Stand with Gaza” sign and demanding a ceasefire, was …

Sidney Powell was the wildest of MAGA diehards —someone who swore long past the bitter end that Donald Trump won by a landslide in 2020, and insinuated that a long-dead Venezuelan dictator helped hatch a plot that flipped votes away from her guy. That’s why the former president and much …